The invalid assumption he’s made is that communists care about the poor. Communists want the government to steal from the working class and spend according to the will of the political elite. Communists are destroyers of wealth, not creators. The solution to poverty is wealth creation, not destruction.
I thought that was what the pope *was* saying, actually. What you said. It sounded to me anyway, to be easily in a manner of tongue in cheek, against the communists.
We have all said nearly the same thing as the pope said— like, “the Marxists have highjacked much of the language of the Church, namely the term, ‘social justice’”, for example. We have all seen Pelosi do that. Infuriating.